In The Heat Of The Summer

In the heat of the summer

When the pavements were burning

The soul of a city was ravaged in the night

After the city sun was sinkin'

Why the windows were shattered

But deep in the dark, someone set the spark

And then it no longer mattered

All the tempers were ragin'

Oh, where, oh, where are the white silver tongues

Who forgot to listen to the warnings?

No longer following reason

And all the stores were the target now

Where just the other day they were buyin'

Drunk with the lure of the looting

And the memory of the uniforms shoving with their sticks

Asking, "Are you looking for trouble?"

"It's not the way of the order

Oh, stay in your homes, please leave us alone

We'll be glad to talk in the morning"

"Why the hurry to your hunger?

Now the rubble's resting on your broken streets

So you see what your rage has unraveled"

Bricks were heavily flyin'

And the loudspeaker drowned like a whisperin' sound

When compared to the angered emotions

And the shame was replacing the anger

So wrong, so wrong, but we've been down so long

And we had to make somebody listen

In the heat of the summer